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Child rights panel soon

LUCKNOW: UP government on Tuesday submitted to the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court it would constitute a child commission within a month. The assurance came from principal secretary social welfare Sadakant. The court directed principal secretary to submit draft of the rules to be framed at next hearing on April 22. Sadakant appeared before a bench of Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice Satish Chandra in compliance of the earlier order issued after hearing the PIL filed by activist Nutan Thakur. The court directed him to appear before it on the next date too. PIL had stated that under Protection of Child Rights Act 2005, it was incumbent on the government to constitute a commission but the state government failed to do so till date.